I attended a talk by Stallman last year and he implored anyone who took a picture of him not to post it on Facebook. Now I can see why.
There are more than enough pictures/videos of Stallman to make a really clean faceprint.
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#32If you don't want your face to be recognized, you can sometimes prevent it from being detected in the first place. Our research group recently looked into how to hide from Facebook's face detector. If you're uploading photos, adding white bars around the eyes of the subjects in the photo is the best way to prevent Facebook from finding the face. However, if you're out and about in the real world, even scarves and mas…
Years ago, I read about a hat that some Hollywood stars had found useful for fighting paparazzi. Mind you, I don't recall the source, and it my have been tabloid nonsense. The hat had a circle of IR LEDs (or something of the sort) emitting 360 degrees of invisible-to-the-naked-eye light. Photos of anyone wearing the hat had a similar effect to using a flash in a mirror, the subject was completely washed out by light.…
I had seen the exact same thing but sadly I have no more information on it. From what I saw it caused a wide glare issue around the area with the lights.
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#33Facial recognition is really scary. This was recently demonstrated for Russia's Facebook, VKontakte, when a service appeared that let you look up people on that site by photo. So people started looking up the profiles of random subway passengers, outing sex workers to their families and friends, etc.
That's not the scary part. The scary part is that people are feeding the facebook DB with pictures, and many more data. They did it, they are doing it, and will keep it up, despite everything we told them. The scary part is that nobody cares.
That's the entirely expected part. I don't know exactly which "we" you're referring to, but the tech scene in general absolutely did not warn people about the dangers of uploading these photos, on the contrary, they encouraged it.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect "everyday" people to know the dangers here. There hasn't been any education, so you can't say "nobody cares". Nobody is aware.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Getting your picture taken kind of puts you on the defensive, but that probably isn't going away. You have to be able to go outside, go to the bank, go to work, and go to the grocery store. Each of those places are going to have cameras up for their own peace of mind. The alternative would be to not go out and enjoy life, which is the worse of the two options.
There is always niqab.
Maybe we are the primitive ones.
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#35I think technologists need to help the public understand how if they are going to continue to fully integrate technology in assisting with their lives, they will be moving closer to a "privacy free" future.
The trade-off between having tailored services and "smart" systems is privacy from machine systems.
The technology community pines for futuristic technology like amazing machine personal assistants, forgetting that human personal assistants (see: professional executive secretaries) know basically everything about the person they are assisting.
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#36One of the exact reasons I never used the data mining center known as facebook, creepy. The things You can do with such data is legion.
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#37Can you obfuscate your "faceprint" by tagging a few other people as you?
You'd have to be pretty vigilant, and it would require others to do the same. There'd have to be an equal, or greater, amount of photos tagged as another person. Who is this other person, anyhow? Where's their account? All data says it's Jill_the_Pill, so she must use pseudo-names. Flag her account for further investigation.
It's best to just stay off of Facebook if you care at all about privacy. At least, that's the underlying message that I get from this, and every other story I read about the site.
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#38If you don't want your face to be recognized, you can sometimes prevent it from being detected in the first place. Our research group recently looked into how to hide from Facebook's face detector. If you're uploading photos, adding white bars around the eyes of the subjects in the photo is the best way to prevent Facebook from finding the face. However, if you're out and about in the real world, even scarves and mas…
Years ago, I read about a hat that some Hollywood stars had found useful for fighting paparazzi. Mind you, I don't recall the source, and it my have been tabloid nonsense. The hat had a circle of IR LEDs (or something of the sort) emitting 360 degrees of invisible-to-the-naked-eye light. Photos of anyone wearing the hat had a similar effect to using a flash in a mirror, the subject was completely washed out by light.…
Most cameras have an IR filter so that won't work.
In the past, phone cameras often didn't have an IR filter.
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#39Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs
#40If you don't want your face to be recognized, you can sometimes prevent it from being detected in the first place. Our research group recently looked into how to hide from Facebook's face detector. If you're uploading photos, adding white bars around the eyes of the subjects in the photo is the best way to prevent Facebook from finding the face. However, if you're out and about in the real world, even scarves and mas…
Years ago, I read about a hat that some Hollywood stars had found useful for fighting paparazzi. Mind you, I don't recall the source, and it my have been tabloid nonsense. The hat had a circle of IR LEDs (or something of the sort) emitting 360 degrees of invisible-to-the-naked-eye light. Photos of anyone wearing the hat had a similar effect to using a flash in a mirror, the subject was completely washed out by light.…
It does appear to be an actual thing. [1] The idea also featured in the novel Influx.
[1] http://gizmodo.com/these-glasses-block-facial-recognition-te...